[Buildbot-devel] suggestions for writing a "manual operation" build step?

[Stefan Seefeld]

Timothee Besset wrote:
> I need to write a build step that would basically wait for a human to
> perform a specific operation before other steps can continue. Does
> anyone have suggestions on how to do that? Ideally I'd like to have a
> button on the waterfall that can be pushed to continue.
> 
> The manual step may sound weird, but we're hitting problems with crappy
> windows software we have to use, and it behaves heratically sometimes.
> For our release builds, I want to be able to add those steps in the
> process so we can manually go in and check / fixup things when the
> software is having a bad day.

I'd do that by splitting the builder into two. The second is dependent
on the first, and so gets automatically run when the first succeeds.

However, if the first fails, you may use some external tools (outside
the realm of the buildbot) to 'fix' the results of the first builder,
and then force builder 2 interactively.

Regards,
		Stefan

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